Gabrielle Anwar

Everyone with a minimal culture of cinema remembers Gabrielle Anwar as the beautiful young woman who dazzled the naive Chris O’Donnell and who danced a marvelous tango – “For a head”, to be exact – with the blind Al Pacino in the film Essence of woman Gabrielle only had a few minutes on screen, but they were enough: her beautiful presence remained forever in the minds of viewers.

Gabrielle Anwar was born in Laleham (England) on February 4, 1970. She is the daughter of a film editor and an actress, so her job runs in the family, and from a young age she wanted to follow that path by studying at a college dance and performance in London. She made her debut at the age of 16 in a low-key TV miniseries titled Hideaway , which was followed by a curious Romanian film, Sa-ti vorbesc despre mine . However, her first noteworthy work came when she was eighteen with Manifesto , a dramatic comedy based on a novel by Émile Zola , and in which Alfred Molina and Eric Stoltz also participated.. After that film he worked sporadically in various television series, such as The Storyteller , First Born or Summer’s Lease , although he had a much greater presence in Press Gang . Due to his television work he met the American actor Craig Sheffer , with whom he became fond and then followed his impulse to go with him to Los Angeles in 1990. He made his debut that same year in Yankee cinema with the suave action comedy If Looks Could Kill . And then came his leading role in the romantic drama Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (1991), by Steve Miner .. This film continues to be considered by Gabrille as one of his favorites among his filmography. And the following year was when she reached the zenith of her popularity, with her role as Donna in Essence of a Woman , where she was truly great. Impossible to forget the sweetness of her gaze and her timid and surprised gesture. Then came the best moments of his career, with works in films of a certain renown, such as the terrifying Body Snatchers , by Abel Ferrara , the comedy Tailor Made Concierge , with Michael J. Fox , or The Three Musketeers (1993) , by Stephen Herek , where he was reunited with his friend Chris O’Donnell.

In the mid-90s, the filmography of the actress became unremarkable, almost always with small roles in often discreet or little-known films. She worked with Stephen Dorff in the thriller Innocent Lies (1995), and the same year she had a major role in the successful TV western The Pursuit of Honor . She was cast in the dark thriller Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead and co-starred with her then-partner Craig Sheffer in The Grave. She precisely with Sheffer she had a daughter, Willow, in 1993, although they would later separate from her and she Gabrielle would marry actor John Verea, with whom she had two other children before divorcing. In 1997, the actress was part of the cast of an ensemble film entitled Nevada (1997) , along with colleagues such as Amy Brenneman , Kirstie Alley or Saffron Burrows . In the year 2000 she highlighted something more about her in her film De ella Presumed Homicidal , with Bill Pullman . However, from then on and with a few exceptions, her work is relegated to low-budget movies, telefilms or productions that are only released on video, such as Turbulence. kidnapping on the net(2001), Try to Remember (2004) or The Portal of Death (2006). And then, when all seemed lost for her, better times were about to come. In 2007 she joined the cast of the hit series The Tudors , about the English dynasty, where she plays Princess Margaret in six episodes. And she can see that she has taken a liking to the series because she immediately went on to star in the crime comedy Último notice , along with Jeffrey Donovan , of which three seasons have been broadcast so far. For 2010 Gabrielle plans to premiere Corazón de guerrero , along with the young promise Ashley Greene .